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by DAVID AXE
The blog China Military Report is a treasure trove of bizzaro weapons ideas, like something straight out of the nuclear-hand-grenade 1950s. The Navy Times‘ new blog The Scoop Deck highlighted CMR’s hilarious, giant, submarine aircraft carrier. But the Chinese blog also features a proposed design for a huge, flying airstrip (illustrated) that is basically a carbon copy of the “heli-carrier” belonging to Marvel Comics’ SHIELD intel agency.
CMR’s name for this fantasy carrier? “China’s space mothership.” Priceless.
(Art: China Military Report)
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Looks like a ripoff of the Thunderbirds (1960 series).
DARPA will be jealous
Pete
Comment by Pete 06.10.09 @ 9:05 amWhere’s the Flying Submarine from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea?
Comment by RoninJin 06.10.09 @ 10:44 amWhat are these people smoking and why are they not sharing?
Comment by Chockblock 06.10.09 @ 11:55 pmwith drone tech the new buzz, i dont see how air carriers cant be considered in the near future..
Comment by griff 06.11.09 @ 10:43 amWasn’t that thing in the “Sky Captain” movie?
Wait…wasn’t Angelina Jolie the captain of it?
BUILD IT! BUILD IT NOW!
Comment by M 06.11.09 @ 12:14 pmWhy stop there? Why not just build the Battlestar Galactica?!
Comment by James DeRuvo 06.12.09 @ 12:42 pm[...] The 59-foot-tall Gundam in Tokyo is now finished, surely developed as a countermeasure against the China’s recent development of flying aircraft carriers such as that reportedly seen on google maps in a lake near Shanghai (below) and their building of the flying airstrip best described as a ripoff of the Giant Helicarrier from SHIELD (second below). Mysterious Aircraft carrier in lake seen near Shanghai via The Register Giant HeliCarrier as Illustrated within China Military Report [...]
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Pingback by War Is Boring 07.29.09 @ 4:10 amSky Captain riffed off of the SHIELD Heli-Carrier idea…which first saw print in 1964, if memory serves correctly.
Finding it difficult to believe that any nation’s government would seriously take this concept and run with it…though I can see where engineers would love to try to make it real.
Comment by Bytowner 09.06.09 @ 6:20 pm….why not a build an anti-matter defense system…with radius half the earth…powered by emp..that would be awesome…next time will see…no one else…
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